Flashback: When Anthony Weiner Was a 1996 Cosmo Bachelor

No, Weiner wasn't a centerfold a la Burt Reynolds on the bearskin. But the embattled New York mayoral candidate was featured in the magazine 17 years ago and opened up to us about what he was looking for in a woman—and getting caught in the "throes of love."

Everyone wants to psychoanalyze serial sexter and career politician Anthony Weiner in the wake of the Carlos Danger scandal—he's a narcissist! Or a sex addict! One thing's for sure: He's not technologically savvy enough to download Snapchat.

But perhaps the key to understanding Weiner's innermost feelings on love and sex can be gleaned from a 1996 Cosmo feature, which spotlighted the then-31-year-old New York city councilman as one of the magazine's 101 real-life bachelors. Unlike his more recent personal photo shoots, he didn't reveal anything below-the-belt. He did, however, reveal a few interesting bits of info, like what he was looking for in a significant other.

In terms of turn-ons, he wanted to be with "someone smarter than me." He succeeded there with wife Huma Abedin.

Interestingly enough, the relationship fantasies he revealed 17 years ago may have predicted his current penchant for online trysts. Weiner told Cosmo: "I want to be sucked back into the throes of love—isn't that what everybody really wants?" If by "throes of love," he means dick pics shared via social media, no, Mr. Weiner, that's not what everybody dreams of! No surprise that almost two decades later, when Weiner and his weiner get bored, they log online looking for those throes...